Celebrating Our Cultures

Tim Loughton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health where the community engagement projects proposed in "Celebrating our Cultures" will be established; how much funding his Department is committing to the establishment of these projects; and what the timescale is for establishing them. [203604]

Ms Rosie Winterton:
The National Institute for Mental Health in England will invest £2 million in the national community engagement programme, which will comprise 80 projects run by non-statutory voluntary and community sector organisations across England over the next two years.

14 pilot projects have been identified; an independent evaluation of them has been commissioned to inform the development of the remaining projects.

Tim Loughton:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what duties a community development worker employed as set out in "Celebrating our Cultures" will have. [203605]

Ms Rosie Winterton:
Community development workers will build capacity within communities, provide support to non-statutory sector groups, identify and access stakeholders, help articulate the needs and views of the communities they serve and facilitate better communication and better pathways to recovery in the non-statutory and statutory sectors. A detailed policy implementation guide on community development workers is due for publication very shortly.

Dental Practice Board

Dr. Murrison:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the annual budget of the Dental Practice Board was in each year since 1997; and how many staff it employed in each year. [204265]

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Ms Rosie Winterton:
The annual budget of the Dental Practice Board and the number of staff they have employed since 1997 are shown in the table.

Net operating cost
(£ million)

Staff number

Staff
whole time equivalent

Estimated whole time at 90 per cent. Equivalent heads

199697

21.2

578



520

199798

23.5

520



468

199899

23.0

480



432

19992000

23.0

442

400



200001

22.9

423

381



200102

24.7

401

367



200203

26.6



342



200304

23.8



325



Notes:
1. All the information has been derived directly from the audited accounts.
2. The figures reflect the changes in accounting requirements and formats of information have changed over the years.
3. The financial information is the equivalent of the current net operating cost, which is expenditure less operating income.
4. The staff number information requirement has now changed from number of heads to whole time equivalent.

Dentistry

Mr. Burstow:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental practices are shown on the nhs.uk website; and how many of these were (a) registering new patients for NHS treatment, (b) registering new children aged up to 18 years, (c) registering charge-exempt adults for NHS treatment, (d) registering charge-paying adults for NHS treatment and (e) providing occasional NHS treatment to non-registered patients on the latest date for which figures are available. [199945]

Ms Rosie Winterton:
On 24 November 2004, there were 8,622 general and personal dental practices shown on the nhs.uk website as able to accept at least one category of patient for registration or occasional treatment under the national health service.

The number of general and personal dental service practices shown on the website as accepting new NHS patients on 24 November 2004, is shown in the table.

Number of practices

Registering children aged 0 to 18 years for NHS treatment

3,781

Registering charge exempt adults for NHS treatment

2,833

Registering charge paying adults for NHS treatment

2,485

Providing occasional NHS treatment to non-registered patients

1,496

Norman Lamb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists there are in each county in England per 10,000 of the population; how many accept NHS patients; and what the figures were in (a) 1997 and (b) 2001. [202691]

Ms Rosie Winterton:
Information by county is available on the number of general and personal dentists working in the national health service but not on how many are currently accepting new NHS patients.

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Numbers at September in the years 1997, 2001 and 2004 in each county in England per 10,000 of the population, are shown in the tables.

Number of general and personal dental service dentistsper 100,000 of the population in each county in England at 30 September 1997, 2001 and 2004

County

1997

2001

2004

Bedfordshire

33

44

34

Buckinghamshire

46

48

49

Cambridgeshire

34

39

40

Cheshire

46

44

35

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

39

43

28

Cumbria

38

39

38

Derbyshire

35

39

42

Devon

40

47

30

Dorset

36

41

40

Durham

34

33

36

East Sussex

43

45

48

Essex

38

41

40

Gloucestershire

45

44

44

Hampshire

36

42

42

Hertfordshire

51

58

62

Kent

42

41

41

Lancashire

37

38

34

Leicestershire

30

32

34

Lincolnshire

24

27

25

Norfolk

39

44

44

Northamptonshire

29

29

41

Northumberland

37

37

33

North Yorkshire

38

41

36

Nottinghamshire

36

42

39

Oxfordshire

39

46

49

Shropshire

35

41

38

Somerset

38

41

40

Staffordshire

30

33

33

Suffolk

38

41

41

Surrey

51

58

58

Warwickshire

32

37

46

West Sussex

44

52

61

Wiltshire

34

39

35

Worcestershire

39

38

40

Note:
Some areas do not have county status even though they may lie within county boundaries. For these areas, the number of general and personal dental service dentists is given by local authority area. This information is given in the table.
Source:
Dental Practice Board and resident population figures 1997, 2001 and 2004.

Number of general and personal dental service dentistsper 100,000 of the population in local authorities not defined by county at 30 September 1997, 2001 and 2004

Local authority

1997

2001

2004

Barking and Dagenham

30

36

35

Barnet

59

64

63

Barnsley

37

40

28

Bath and North East Somerset

50

56

55

Bexley

41

41

45

Birmingham

37

38

41

Blackburn with Darwen

41

41

38

Blackpool

36

39

34

Bolton

42

41

38

Bournemouth

47

55

53

Bracknell Forest

41

44

50

Bradford

36

34

31

Brent

61

63

65

Brighton and Hove

49

54

57

Bristol, City of

48

52

49

Bromley

48

50

55

Bury

44

39

39

Calderdale

37

38

38

Camden

81

82

79

City of London

212

82

144

Coventry

31

37

41

Croydon

53

56

59

Darlington

33

43

49

Derby

36

40

42

Doncaster

35

38

33

Dudley

31

35

39

Ealing

71

63

51

East Riding of Yorkshire

25

26

25

Enfield

42

47

55

Gateshead

44

48

44

Greenwich

45

46

50

Hackney

45

41

39

Halton

32

34

13

Hammersmith and Fulham

81

87

80

Haringey

60

56

61

Harrow

50

58

63

Hartlepool

30

30

27

Havering

38

47

53

Herefordshire, County of

42

45

38

Hillingdon

43

49

52

Hounslow

68

71

54

Isle of Wight

31

28

28

Islington

51

74

66

Kensington and Chelsea

58

51

50

Kingston upon Hull, City of

30

38

33

Kingston upon Thames

48

52

53

Kirklees

38

43

35

Knowsley

35

33

32

Lambeth

50

46

51

Leeds

41

44

37

Leicester

45

43

43

Lewisham

47

50

50

Liverpool

44

40

37

Luton

36

40

39

Manchester

53

51

39

Medway

38

39

45

Merton

43

46

52

Middlesbrough

48

56

57

Milton Keynes

39

41

42

Newcastle upon Tyne

47

51

60

Newham

37

38

39

North East Lincolnshire

29

32

26

North Lincolnshire

23

29

11

North Somerset

46

52

56

North Tyneside

69

71

38

Nottingham

43

45

52

Oldham

39

37

26

Peterborough

32

39

46

Plymouth

39

44

34

Poole

35

40

63

Portsmouth

32

39

40

Reading

51

52

64

Redbridge

48

60

61

Redcar and Cleveland

41

41

40

Richmond upon Thames

57

61

62

Rochdale

35

31

27

Rotherham

36

39

20

Rutland

55

46

42

Salford

42

42

37

Sandwell

40

41

41

Sefton

42

41

14

Sheffield

40

43

29

Slough

39

45

56

Solihull

34

39

43

South Gloucestershire

41

37

36

South Tyneside

40

39

32

Southampton

34

33

28

Southend-on-Sea

35

41

37

Southwark

46

38

40

St. Helens

36

42

27

Stockport

42

44

32

Stockton-on-Tees

47

54

53

Stoke-on-Trent

30

32

29

Sunderland

31

37

41

Sutton

51

57

61

Swindon

36

39

39

Tameside

35

37

27

Telford and Wrekin

33

33

36

Thurrock

24

28

31

Torbay

46

56

41

Tower Hamlets

36

36

46

Trafford

47

53

49

Wakefield

32

37

29

Walsall

26

26

28

Waltham Forest

37

42

47

Wandsworth

59

65

57

Warrington

39

44

22

West Berkshire

32

40

43

Westminster

113

103

83

Wigan

38

39

38

Windsor and Maidenhead

38

50

63

Wirral

46

49

11

Wokingham

31

38

42

Wolverhampton

31

34

40

York

46

56

45

Note:
Population figures for 1997 and 2001 are based on 2001 projections for the resident population for counties and local authorities. Population figures for 2004 are based on 2003 resident population projections.
Source:
Dental Practice Board and resident population figures for 1997, 2001 and 2004.